Set Rankings

Regional Bar

Set overviews: England and Wales

Albion Chambers has an ‘excellent team of highly skilled family and criminal barristers’; ‘they always step up to the mark’. On the family side, the group deals with a full range of matters, including care and finance cases. With ‘some of the best “money” senior juniors in the South West’, the group is particularly well known for matrimonial finance. The set also has a substantial crime team that handles defence and prosecution. On the civil side, chambers has a solid reputation for employment and regulatory expertise. Paul Fletcher is the chambers director, with Michael Harding, Bonnie Colbeck and Stephen Arnold respectively heading up the family, crime and civil clerking teams. Office in: Bristol

Regional Bar

Set overviews: England and Wales

Albion Chambers has an ‘excellent team of highly skilled family and criminal barristers’; ‘they always step up to the mark’. On the family side, the group deals with a full range of matters, including care and finance cases. With ‘some of the best “money” senior juniors in the South West’, the group is particularly well known for matrimonial finance. The set also has a substantial crime team that handles defence and prosecution. On the civil side, chambers has a solid reputation for employment and regulatory expertise. Paul Fletcher is the chambers director, with Michael Harding, Bonnie Colbeck and Stephen Arnold respectively heading up the family, crime and civil clerking teams. Office in: Bristol

Regional Bar : Western Circuit

Crime

Albion Chambers’ is a ‘good solid crime set with strong advocates at all levels’. Members undertake both prosecution and defence work, and the set contains a number of CPS grade 4 prosecutors and RASSO-approved advocates. Recent cases include murders, sexual offences, fraud and drugs conspiracies.

Family and children law

Albion Chambers has ‘an excellent team of highly skilled family barristers’. The set handles the full range of cases and is split into two distinct teams: children and finance. However, the set is particularly well known for its financial remedy specialists, who have ‘real strength in high- and mid-net-worth cases’. Chambers is also recommended for private law children work.

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